One Weird Trick
A star literary theorist takes on our most devalued aesthetic category
It’s Not Easy Being Seen
The relatable, unlikeable characters of Halle Butler’s fiction
One Pill Makes You Smaller
Hari Kunzru and the Gen X Midlife-Crisis Novel
Dough or Die
In Nicole Flattery’s fiction, precarity is an all-consuming problem
Dems the Breaks
Rick Perlstein wraps up his four-book history of American conservatism
